Ecotone celebrates its tenth year and nineteenth issue with a brand-new website. Please visit us at ecotonemagazine.org,where you can readselected work fromEcotone 19, as well asearlier issues. You can alsosubscribe or order recentissues at our new store.

With the launch of our tenth-anniversary issue, Ecotone has moved to a new virtual home! To read work from the issue as well as past issues of the magazine, please visit ecotonemagazine.org. If you’d like to subscribe, or to order our tenth-anniversary issue as well as past issues, you can do so here.

There is a certain digital anxiety being acted out in this collection of fiction from Ecotone magazine’s first decade, as well as a feeling of urgency, as if the need for a short story must be argued for here and now, guided by Ecotone’s mission to reimagine the idea of place . . . The stories in Astoria to Zion recognize and struggle with the draw of the screen, which makes them all the more interesting and timely.
—Harvard Review

We live in a time when essays are often bullied into being articles, when the marketplace and the Internet, both ever-hungry for action, serve to cattle-prod the lounging essayist out of his or her natural ambling pace and into something closer to a march.

I once talked with an ecologist, Clinton Epps, who was studying how the wall being built at the U.S.–Mexico border might affect wildlife. A situation so hard for people was, not surprisingly, problematic for animals as well.